History

'Those who are not killed by accident perish of exhaustion and excessive toil; the rock is hard and the ladders are so long... They produce riches, and scarcely enjoy common necessaries themselves.' - Alponse Esquirose

Years on from the industrial mining peak the terminology that has survived seems alien in the modern day.
Use our mining dictionary to decipher a 'leat' from a 'lode' or tell the difference between the 'stope' and the 'stamp'.